MurE

• Description: UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl-meso-2,6-diaminopimelate synthetase
  
  

Gene name	murE
Synonyms
Essential	yes PubMed
Product	UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl- meso-2,6-diaminopimelate synthetase
Function	peptidoglycan precursor biosynthesis
Metabolic function and regulation of this protein in SubtiPathways: Cell wall
MW, pI	54 kDa, 5.558
Gene length, protein length	1482 bp, 494 aa
Immediate neighbours	spoVD, mraY
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU15180

Phenotypes of a mutant

essential PubMed

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: ATP + UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamate + meso-2,6-diaminoheptanedioate = ADP + phosphate + UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanyl-D-gamma-glutamyl-meso-2,6-diamino-heptanedioate (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Protein family: MurE subfamily (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization: cytoplasm (according to Swiss-Prot)

Database entries

• Structure:

• Swiss prot entry: Q03523

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number: 6.3.2.13

Expression and regulation

• Operon: murE-mraY-murD-spoVE-murG-murB-divIB-ylxW-ylxX-sbp

• Sigma factor: SigE

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody:

References

Jean van Heijenoort
Lipid intermediates in the biosynthesis of bacterial peptidoglycan.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2007, 71(4);620-35
[PubMed:18063720] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

R A Daniel, J Errington
DNA sequence of the murE-murD region of Bacillus subtilis 168.
J Gen Microbiol: 1993, 139(2);361-70
[PubMed:8436954] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)